Fruit-canning device



vJe. DEPLANTY. FRUIT CANNING DEVICE.

(No Model.)

No. 291,581'. Patented Jan. 8, 1884.

UNITED STATES ATENT Gis-TICE.

FABIEUS DEPLANTY, OF HASTINGS, MICHIGAN.

FRUIT-CANNING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,581, dated January 8, 1884.

Application tiled August B, 1883.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it `known that I, FABIEUs DEPLANTY, of Hastings, in the county of Barry and State of Michigan, have .invented new and useful 5 Improvements in Fruit-Canning Devices; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, `and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

`This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of racks to be employed in canning fruit, in combination with a suitable boiler.

rllhe invention consists in the peculiar construction and operation of the rack, as more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which my invention is shown in Figure l in perspective, and in Fig. 2 in cross-section, A represents a bed-plate, which may be made to adapt itself to any size or shape of boiler, and upon this bed-plate the cans are designed to be placed, and the bed-plate should be of sufficient width to furnish a support for the entire bottom of one or more rows of cans. At each end of this bed-plate there are secured the standards B, the height of which should be equal to that of the usual glass quartcan with its top in place, and the risers or standards should be of equal width with the bot-` tom. Centrally rising from the top ofthe standards are the shafts C, provided with a series of holes `through such shafts to receive the 35 pins D, which hold the cap E in position.

(No model.)

This cap should be narrower than the bedplate, so as not to entirely hide the covers of the cans. A handle, F, is secured to the cap, to facilitate its handling.

In practice it is preferable that the bed-plate 4o should be wide enough to receive two rows of cans. These cans should be first filled with the fruit, then placed on the rack, and the cap of the rack placed in position and secured by means Of the pins, so that such cap will 45 retain the cans in place, leaving about half their tops uncovered. rIhe rack then should be placed in the boiler, in which there should be suflicient water to reach about one-third of the height of the cans, when the water 5o should be brought gradually to a boil and kept inthat condition until the fruit is heated -hi t vmarinus s DErLANTY.

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Witnesses:

F. G. GOODYEAR, W. S. GOODYEAR, J OHN BEssMER. 

